Wanna lead a team of misogynistic cannibals? You can.
Wanna be a mad scientist that extracts the brain of his prisoners to create deadly robots? You can.
Wanna build a village of drug-friendly pacifists? You can.
What's fantastic about this game is how many things are optional. You don't have to care about climbing the ladder of the empire if you don't want to. You don't need to build the space ship. You don't need to go to war with your neighbors.
Two big "flaws". The AI can sometimes throw at you problems that are too hard, like enemies to strong as it not always estimate correctly your strength, which brings me to the biggest flaw of the game: combat.
Your characters can literally throw themselves into enemy fire and need a lot of micromanagement for combat. Worse, the combat model is such that a guy in a power armor can be defeated by tribesmen with bows and arrows, that's because projectiles and armor isn't really simulated entirely.
An extension called "combat extended" attempts to remedy this, but I find it has its own problems.
That's me being pedantic, the game is incredible, go for if the idea of building your own base and story is attractive to you.
Wanna lead a team of misogynistic cannibals? You can. Wanna be a mad scientist that extracts the brain of his prisoners to create deadly robots? You can. Wanna build a village of drug-friendly pacifists? You can.
What's fantastic about this game is how many things are optional. You don't have to care about climbing the ladder of the empire if you don't want to. You don't need to build the space ship. You don't need to go to war with your neighbors.
Two big "flaws". The AI can sometimes throw at you problems that are too hard, like enemies to strong as it not always estimate correctly your strength, which brings me to the biggest flaw of the game: combat.
Your characters can literally throw themselves into enemy fire and need a lot of micromanagement for combat. Worse, the combat model is such that a guy in a power armor can be defeated by tribesmen with bows and arrows, that's because projectiles and armor isn't really simulated entirely.
An extension called "combat extended" attempts to remedy this, but I find it has its own problems.
That's me being pedantic, the game is incredible, go for if the idea of building your own base and story is attractive to you.